What did you do today?

Talk about your cars etc here. Keep it sort of sensible and on topic please.
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Apart from any sensitivity, can any major component actually be regarded as safe to re-use once an impact hard enough to kill the occupants has taken place? Even back in the carefree '70s our local breaker was beyond breaking fatals for spares - they went straight to the crusher once Bill and the underwriters were happy.
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I'm surprised it's even legal. Biohazard and all that.
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I don't think blood contaminated/fatality cars are supposed to be in breakers - aren't they Cat A?
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It's only a "code of practice" innit?
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I think they're selling anything they can to make money and pay wages - it came from Copart next door. If Brexit happens, I suspect U Pull It will be fucked as it relies very heavily on Eastern European business. I bet 70% of customers are Polish/Lithuanian etc and you're always seeing vans and trucks loading up with cars and spares.

Leavers don't think about that however.
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Surely, though, if the parts are in that much demand and well-priced they will just cough up whatever (probably moderate) amount of duty/tax is required. It's never stopped folk here buying up US parts or selling to Japan and there have always been tariffs on those trades.
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Also if you take the view, which I don't as a leaver, that the pound will 'tank' then the parts will be cheaper in terms of their own currencies.
The biggest hit I get when buying stuff from abroad is the ridiculous postage charges from the USA, Holland etc..
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That'll be made up by more that practical second hand cars will be worth more, as people will see the economy in free fall and not want monthly commitments or buy a brand new car. So they'll take the economic option of second hand or repairing.

And yes even the optimistic brexiter politicians and economists are expecting the economy to fall if we do brexit.
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Fall not tank, of course it'll take a while to settle & adjust to the new way of doing things.
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You obviously read different sources to me.

Even Mark Carney has dialled back on the project fear stuff, the economy in free fall is very last year, the sort of thing that Lloyd Blankfein, the Goldman Sachs chairman was coming out with along with the loss of tens of thousands of city jobs, which has not happened.

We will see but a bit of a dip as we adjust to new circumstances does not in any circumstances equate to an economy in free fall. Having spent my entire career in finance I've seen all of this doom and gloom before, the last being the 2008 banking crisis, before then Russia, the far east etc etc..
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